Keyword Difficulty etc.

[JamesMason67]

Hey guys
Wondering if you could help me please. I am looking for an SEO tool that will accurately tell me Keyword Difficulty (1 - 100) type thing, and also search volume per month. I am looking for one that is accurate most importantly. Tried out a few free ones but they seem to give differing results.

I'd be much obliged if someone could point me in the right direction.
Thank you
James

 

[Shopclicks]

Hi James. I can't help with the tool you are looking for but just as an aside. You should check the location settings in your Adwords account as your paid ads are appearing in multiple countries around the world. There is both an Edinburgh & a Morningside in Australia & Canada. Your ads are appearing on all devices for google .com.au & google .ca search results. Checked on 3 IP's for 'stonemasons edinburgh' and 'chimney repairs edinburgh' plus the other morningside variations.
You may or may not be paying for clicks from outside of your location but you certainly don't want your impressions/click results skewed.

 

[Tin]

Hi James

There's been numerous tools that do that but over the years they've gone 'pop'!
Long Tail Pro is probably the best one currently but it's still making best guesses on keyword difficulty as it's using some data from Moz to be able to come to it's conclusions.

Here's a bunch of videos which will give you a good enough idea about it but it's a paid tool, not a freebie.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=long+tail+pro

Hope it helps

Ray

 

[fisicx]

You don't need a tool. All you need to use is use the questions people ask when they get in contact. If someone calls and asks if you fix broken lintels then that's a page you need on your site (use the words they use not what you might call it). One page for each and every thing you do and a post for every job you do.

Do this and you will have all possible keywords covered.

 

[JamesMason67]

Thanks very much guys
Tony, thank you, I will have that checked out. That could be expensive.

Ray, thanks buddy. I don't mind paying if its accurate. Much obliged.

Thanks Graham, I have been doing a lot of work on such pages as you gave me this advice a while back and I did listen. This tool I am looking for is for another digital project I am putting together, and I need an accurate tool giving me difficulty and volume info.
Thanks again
James

 

[Shopclicks]

Hi James. If this is a new project without an active website, you could probably do worse than loading the top ranking competitors site into the Adwords keyword planner with a few keywords you know are relevant. This will give you search volumes and a 'non-existent', 'low', 'medium' or 'high' competitiveness rank. Just keep in mind that the results are based on Adwords paid ads and not organic results. The search volumes are the same in most cases as the search volumes used by serpfox, etc.

 

[JamesMason67]

Cheers Tony. That will at least give me an idea for now. Thank you. I will definitely try that.

Just looking at some of the videos in Tin's links. Appears to be an excellent tool for what I plan to do. I had obviously heard of Long Tail Pro before but never looked at it closely. Thanks again for the tip Ray.
James

 

[threenine]

This thread, is a great example of community in action!
Not one person trying to SELL a solution, but all willing to help solve a problem!

Awesome guys! Keep it up!

 

[JamesMason67]

Totally agree. So many here have been a fantastic help to me over the years. Fantastic site.
I am very grateful to you all.

 

[boring-friday]

Agree with long tail pro being best, really good for finding long tail keywords but its still nowhere near accurate, it says keywords like 'e liquid' and 'protein powder' are fairly low comp or did last time I looked anyway.
Doubt its worth you paying full price for it but theres probably shared accounts on fiverr if you wanted to try it out
You're much better off doing it yourself if its important keywords, you can search for a detailed guide but mostly to me its..

hard comp: all on the first page are targeting the keyword in url and title,big authority sites on the first page, lots of strong backlinks going to the url,lots of search results for the keyword

 

[Marek Skoczylas]

Hey guys
Wondering if you could help me please. I am looking for an SEO tool that will accurately tell me Keyword Difficulty (1 - 100) type thing, and also search volume per month. I am looking for one that is accurate most importantly. Tried out a few free ones but they seem to give differing results.

I'd be much obliged if someone could point me in the right direction.
Thank you
James

GoogleAdwords-> Tools-> Keyword Planner-> Get search volume data and trends

 

[Scott@KarmaContent]

Hi James,

Have you tried http://keywordtool.io/?

It utilises the type-in autocomplete suggestions of Google (choose UK) and Youtube, Bing and others too. Simply type a search term in and it will come up with loads of Google's autocomplete suggestions. No need to subscribe to get search volumes, simply copy and paste the results into Google Docs or Excel and then copy and paste these into Google Keyword Planner. You'll get the search volumes of loads of longtail terms many of which you will never find just by using Google's Keyword Planner's keyword suggestions.

Then just rinse and repeat for different terms.

 

[JamesMason67]

Marek and Scott, thanks very much.

Thanks Dan, would the reverse be true that if first page organics were showing largely directories such as Yell, freeindex etc especially in the top half of the page for building trade searches then this might indicate weakness in the pages listed there?
James

 

[boring-friday]

Probably quite hard, those are huge sites, can outrank them if they don't have too many links going to the actual page though.

You started a new business or you joining the spammy affiliate sites crew?

Saw you got rank 1 for 'stone masons edinburgh' now? Well done

 

[fisicx]

You are overthinking this. If you were creating project pages (blog posts) as we discussed many times you would be ranking well for a whole range of keywords.

Your problem isn't keywords, it's the site structure. You aren't giving Google the content it's looking for which means it can't rank you for all the keywords.

 

[JamesMason67]

Sorry about late replies. Just back this evening from a short trip abroad.

Thanks Dan. Yes site ranking very well just now. No not spammy affiliate stuff at all. Been studying SEO for a year or so now, and want to start a couple of new digital businesses. Just putting information together. I found an excellent tool that does what I'm looking for in addition to the above suggestions. Its called SEMRush. Does anyone have knowledge or experience with this tool? Any Good?

Thanks Graham. The information I was looking for wasn't for my stonemason site and I am working on the blogposts you kindly suggested I make. Thanks again for this advice.
James

 

[Tin]

Its called SEMRush. Does anyone have knowledge or experience with this tool? Any Good?

Yes, it's excellent James and spans a wide bunch of very useful tools. SEMRush have a 45min tutorial here https://www.semrush.com/kb/video-tutorial/ and there's a shed load of them on Youtube too https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=semrush+tutorial.

Ray

 

[Ivan N]

I think Long Tail Pro is the best choice for you. Otherwise, The Google AdWord is also good.

 

[JamesMason67]

That's great guys. I have trial versions of them both and am starting to get my head round them,
thanks again,
James

 

[Leandros21]

Adwords keywords tool and semrush are enough for your needs.

 

[StevePoster]

In addition for this great discussion, It would be better if you use active online communities as a basis for your target keywords and not contrary to other tools but I find them confusing. So engagement with the users is the best for effective keyword research.

 

[JamesMason67]

Thanks Leandros and Steve

 

[JamesMason67]

Hi
I have a question about Longtail Pro Platinum. I am hoping someone very familiar with the tool can help me here.

To the right of the screen there is a column which is marked "Average Keyword Competitiveness". It comes up with a number, stated as a percentage about how difficult a phrase is to rank.

I'm assuming something along the lines of 1% would mean instant number one spot, and 100% being akin to outranking YouTube for the term "YouTube". I get that bit.

What I want to know is this. The terms I am hoping to rank for ultimately are somewhere between 32 and 45% difficulty. In the real world, how difficult would this percentage range be to rank?

Also what do they mean by rank? No.1 position? First page?

Excuse all the questions. Apprentice SEO at work here.
Thank you
James

 

[Usman Ahmed]

Put your competitors into semrush and you'll get all the keywords you will ever need

Here is a guide to keyword research tools that is fantastic... backlinkoDOTcomSLASHkeyword-research-tools

 

[Simonster]

Long Tail Pro wins hands down, I've been using it for the last year and a half

 

[JamesMason67]

Thanks very much guys. I settled on the paid versions of Long tail and Majestic and use the free SEMRush tool. Will check out the backlinko tool. Thanks.

Did anyone have any thoughts on my Longtail question 3 posts ago?
All the best
James

 

[Simonster]

Yes anything under 35 has a better chance of getting ranked on the first page.

You tube the LTR tutorial

Hope that helps.

 

[JamesMason67]

Thanks Simon. Will check that video out

 

[StevePoster]

What I want to know is this. The terms I am hoping to rank for ultimately are somewhere between 32 and 45% difficulty. In the real world, how difficult would this percentage range be to rank?

Tools are only guide, but not to consider as a basis.
Relying on the percentage in the tool doesn't help because RankBrain affects a lot in the searches today and expecting more in the future so that Google will rank your site page according to the content in which will answer the users need and expectations but not in exact keyword phrase.

Yes anything under 35 has a better chance of getting ranked on the first page.

Anything under 35 is not a basis nor as a metric to get rank in the first page.
It will depend on how quality your site content page is. Is it new? Interesting? Engaging?